Camelot The Winning Word

187 words and 29 rounds comprised one of the longest most competitive Cannon County spelling bees in recent history and the marathon contest was won by spelling the word camelot.  Eastside’s Lauren Underwood spelled the word correctly and will now be headed to Nashville in March to participate in the Statewide Spelling Bee contest at Belmont University.  23 Cannon County 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th graders participated in this years event at Westside School Thursday night in which it took sixteen rounds to get down to the final two contestants. Baylee Nemeth from Woodland School almost had it won in the 23rd round when Lauren misspelled disappearance.  Baylee spelled intrigue right but miscued the word impenetrable giving Lauren new life.  Six rounds later Baylee missed the word syringe.  After Lauren spelled insulation correctly, she then spelled camelot for the win.  Baylee Nemeth takes second place, Austin Brock of Eastside finished third, while Kyle Margarito of Westside claimed fourth, and Woodland’s Maggie Cook finished fifth.  
Student Spelling Bee Participants (*Finished in top of school spelling bees but did not participate in County Spelling Bee)
Auburn
Hunter Vickers
Chloe Dill
Bradly Vickers
Rachel Dorris*
Rachel Hale-Alternate
Eastside
Brittany Klen*
Lindsey Bowman
Lauren Underwood
James Jones
Austin Brock
Jacob Gonzalez-Alternate*
Short Mountain
Caitlyn Miller
Addison Hale
Rachel Alexander*
Katie Reedy*
Erika Taylor
West Side
Kyle Margarito
Michael Buse
Amy Mears
Justin Hill
Joram Hardin
Taylor Cochran-Alternate*
Woodbury Grammar
Abigail Ferrell
Dathan Ring
Jacob Bentley
Josh Walkup*
Micah Fonoti*
 
Woodland
Baylee Nemeth
Maggie Cook
Austin Taylor
Cierra Thomas
Katie Gannon*
 
Judges
Kasi Agee
Chassity Burks
Gloria Simon